Maybe we should call it Climate Transition
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Hello, everybody. I hope all my readers and their loved ones affected by Hurricane Milton are safe and well.
This week’s comic is “A Trump presidency wasn’t going to harm ME!”
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SPOILER ALERT: This one is about climate change and hurricanes. (And was written before I’d ever heard of Hurricane Milton.)
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Comic Con
I’ll be making an appearance at the New York Comic Con, on Thursday, October 17, from 11am to 1pm, signing and selling Tom the Dancing Bug books, fist-bumping, answering the tough questions, and making rambling speeches. The crowd will be the biggest ever.
The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug volumes (signed and [briefly] sketched in front of your astonished eyes) will be only $28 (venmo) or $25 (cash). While supplies last (I can only bring so many). I also might bring some rarities.
PLUS, OFFICE HOURS: I'm also planning on spending an hour or so afterwards, 1:45-2:45pm, at the Landmark Tavern (six minute walk from the convention at 626 11th Ave.), in case anybody who is in NYC but doesn't have a ticket to the convention (or anybody who does) wants to join me for a drink and more book-selling, conversation, high-fives, extra credit assignments, and whatever works.
I’ll wear a yellow baseball hat so you can find me.
Please do check back at the Tom the Dancing Bug webpage for any updates, and any day-of updates will be made on my BlueSky account.
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Classic
This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Day in Trump’s America,” from 2020.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Note that both this week’s comic and this Classic happen to feature “climate change deniers” and “innocent red state victims” in the throes of a hurricane.
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Super Fun
And the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has recently featured comics from this installment (from 2014).
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Boing Boing
I’m now occasionally writing posts for Boing Boing. Here is an item I wrote recently:
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Okay, that does it. I hope to see everyone nearby (i.e., the Western hemisphere) at the NYCC on Thursday. If you can’t make it, I expect you to buy the books online, info below.
My thoughts are with everyone in and from Florida, and I remain,
Yours Indeed,
Rb
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